Rigid vs Punctilious - What's the difference?
rigid | punctilious | Related terms |
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Fixed, rather than moving.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace, The Pale King ,Penguin Books, page 5:
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.
Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
* 2009 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson and Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language
Rigid is a related term of punctilious.
As adjectives the difference between rigid and punctilious
is that rigid is rigid while punctilious is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.rigid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
Synonyms
* unbending, inflexibleAntonyms
* flexible * moving * compromisingDerived terms
* rigidity * rigidly * rigidnessReferences
* *punctilious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With a punctilious slap of the gloves, the duel was now inevitable.
- Of course, humans do not treat time in such a punctilious fashion.